Brexit won’t see Brits take back control but will become dependent on global superpowers like America and China, European Council President blasts

BREXIT will not see Brits take back control but become dependent on global superpowers like America and China, the European Council President has blasted.

In a furious tirade against our EU divorce, Eurocrat Donald Tusk branded Brexit architects like Boris Johnson misleading “demagogues” ahead of a meeting with Theresa May on Friday.

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In a letter to the 27 other EU member states, Mr Tusk said they must make clear that quitting the union will not make Britain more independent.

“Let us have the courage to be proud of our own achievements, which have made our continent the best place on earth,” he raged.

“Let us have the courage to oppose the rhetoric of demagogues, who claim that European integration is beneficial only to the elites, that ordinary people have only suffered as its result, and that countries will cope better on their own, rather than together.”

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Mr Tusk went on: “It must be made crystal clear that the disintegration of the European Union will not lead to the restoration of some mythical, full sovereignty of its member states, but to their real and factual dependence on the great superpowers: the United States, Russia and China.

And calling for more European integration, he claimed: “Only together can we be fully independent.”

And he claimed a strengthening of the EU’s external borders, improved counter-terror co-operation, a hike in defence spending and policies to foster EU growth were needed to fight the shock of Brexit.

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The former Polish PM also said the EU must take “assertive and spectacular” action to reverse European voters’ disinterest for more integration amid an array of threats.

He hit out at an “assertive China, especially on the seas, Russia’s aggressive policy towards Ukraine and its neighbours, wars, terror and anarchy in the Middle East and in Africa, with radical Islam.”

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And he included the “worrying declarations by the new American administration” in long list of of threats that make the EU’s future “highly unpredictable.”

The tirade came just days before an informal EU council meeting in Malta on Friday.